Hacker News: alexitosrv

New comment by alexitosrv in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

alexitosrv — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:01:08 +0000

Oh yeah!, I forgot that staying silent and complying quietly is way better!! In 1700s they should have used that instead of guillotines.

New comment by alexitosrv in "LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]"

alexitosrv — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:02:33 +0000

Typst requires a signup? It's web? It says developed in the open, but the main page also offers a login. What can you about latex vs typst?

New comment by alexitosrv in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

alexitosrv — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:09:08 +0000

> Python has a slide-in "donate now or we mug you"

Visited python.org and... you were not exaggerating! wth!

New comment by alexitosrv in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

alexitosrv — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:22:43 +0000

that is near macbook levels!, good to know and seems promising. the thing with advertised battery duration they always overestimate, thank you!

New comment by alexitosrv in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

alexitosrv — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:18:21 +0000

On battery life: what is decent for you? I wonder, because the T14S that many are vouching for here gives me around 1.5h which is not the best, but I probably will be in the market for an X1 next year, so I wonder what to expect.

Reflections on my tech career part 2

alexitosrv — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:41:55 +0000

Article URL: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960128

Points: 5

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New comment by alexitosrv in "I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains"

alexitosrv — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:41:49 +0000

Very well said! In this struggle, and as I'm in a new job, and I've tried to not get carried away by the common distractions in not logging in on the corporate laptop on hn, reddit, and a few others. As you can see I already failed, but what a great thought that I could not resist to agree with a longer comment saying the same that an upvote. :)

New comment by alexitosrv in "Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI"

alexitosrv — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:15:20 +0000

This is the best chain of comments in a HN thread in a long time. Happy to see the hacker spirit strong!

New comment by alexitosrv in "Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why?"

alexitosrv — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:25:47 +0000

I still depend heavily on textfx npp plugins for many mundane tasks, such as quickly sorting a few lines in a text file and I have not bothered to find a replacement so far, like in almost 2 decades hehehe

New comment by alexitosrv in "ChatGPT Search"

alexitosrv — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:36:25 +0000

My golden hallucination tests for chatgpt are identification of Simpsons season and episode based on description of some plot lines or general0 descriptions.

I had to refresh my knowledge base visiting fandom websites to review the episode selected as answer as chatgpt tendency to mix things up and provide entirely made up episodes make it hard for bar trivias (and makes me doubt myself too). The same with other tv series such as House MD and Scrubs.

New comment by alexitosrv in "Weaveworks is shutting down"

alexitosrv — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:23:07 +0000

In LinkedIn I also read some of their key people wrote a post with this wording for the announcement: "I americium precise bittersweet to denote – officially – that Weaveworks volition beryllium closing its doors and shutting down commercialized operations." and I almost had an stroke trying to parse it...

New comment by alexitosrv in "PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell"

alexitosrv — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:12:37 +0000

Wonderful! Thanks a lot for the link! Oh man, reading that end of year 1994 issue brings out a lot of memories. An IBM Thinkpad 755CD cost $7600 USD!!! and those advertisements for everything else: the design language, the words, the double entendre, those were the times.

New comment by alexitosrv in "9 years of Apple text editor solo dev"

alexitosrv — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:22:28 +0000

Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCUi_dRU0tY

New comment by alexitosrv in "Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?"

alexitosrv — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:08:28 +0000

Full AC of yours!!

New comment by alexitosrv in "Ask HN: Convenient way of getting camera photos to your computer?"

alexitosrv — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:56:15 +0000

I've used WiFi FTP server on android. The main advantage is that is totally cross platform, and very fast (far from USB speeds but easily you can get a few tens of MB/s). On the other hand, OneDrive is very good at uploading and keeping a sane folder structure, so there is also that.

New comment by alexitosrv in "Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3B in Profit"

alexitosrv — Thu, 11 May 2023 04:24:29 +0000

Thanks! Strangely is not in the front page. Like it sank out of disinterest (not really).

New comment by alexitosrv in "Tech mogul Bryan Johnson, 45, spends $2Myr to achieve 18-year-old body"

alexitosrv — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:59:48 +0000

Yeah, he was Paul Allen!

New comment by alexitosrv in "Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)"

alexitosrv — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 04:26:05 +0000

Yeah, like it's not that long. They should add that disclaimer to the safety messages at the beginning of the flight. "In case of an emergency, you will have 12 minutes of oxygen, which while we know is not that much, is better than to die instantly."

New comment by alexitosrv in "Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)"

alexitosrv — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:25:56 +0000

Oh yeah, that is like racing against top drivers! Similar to a sibling comment, I remember a story. It was me taking part in a karts race, just for fun of course, and in the group was this kid who was like 10 or 12?, and in less than 5 laps he built a gap so large, and 10 more laps later I ended up exhausted doing my theoretical best (trying to follow "best" racing lines and all) while he was just doing a warmup. After we finished, I talked to him and he told me that he was going to take part of the world Karting championship in two months later at the time, and I felt so trash compared to him. It was eye opening in a way that makes you wonder if their brain processes the world similarly to you, or if they are built too overpowered for us mere mortals.

New comment by alexitosrv in "Text to Diagram Tools"

alexitosrv — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:26:59 +0000

Guys, for computer network representation, graphs mostly, do you have a preference?